False advertising
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(OP)
Last year I moved back home and joined another design firm. While at my old company I was the EOR of all bridge projects. My previous employers had never designed a bridge and nobody at the office knows how to design one. I was recently told by an ex-coworker that my old firm is claiming my work as their own, which is fine for the projects I did while I was employed there. However they are claiming work I did before I joined their firm and work I did in other States. They did hire an EIT that has done a few bridge projects while working with another firm, he is not licensed and my old boss that knows nothing about bridges is signing his work.
How can you stop them from claiming my work history and isn't it a bad idea to seal work you can't review?
How can you stop them from claiming my work history and isn't it a bad idea to seal work you can't review?





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b> Yes, it's a bad idea, but you're not there, so you don't have all the facts.
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From your post;
"nobody at the office knows how to design one" &
"They did hire an EIT that has done a few bridge projects while working with another firm"
Both statements can't be right.
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The work taken credit for, ostensibly was performed by the OP when employed by the company; therefore, the company owns it, and can claim that "they" did it. If they claim that someone in the company other than the OP did the work, that would be a different matter.
In a typical relevant experience blurb, "We performed this, that, and the other on the Blah Bridge in 2004," is correct and valid, since it leaves open the question of whether they could do the same work now.
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They can't claim the work you did prior to joining them though, that is clear and probably worth a letter to them and maybe your Board. But you have to be certain (with proof other than second-hand ex-coworker accounts).
IC
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On a slight tangent:
What about advertising papers written by "our professionals", when the people do not work there any more (did at the time of the writing)?
To me it says that they are included in the talent pool that you would get if you hired them.
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With proposals I am used to seeing, or asking, which current staff member you propose to use had what experience/role on the projects you have listed? If none of the proposed staffing has relevant experience on the projects claimed, the company may claim the prior experience, but reveal that they have not retained the knowledge and experience. Not much different than the "bait and switch" clowns who claim to be placing magnificent engineers on the job, then trying to send out newbies and history majors. They get caught and hopefully severely punished.
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Cedar Bluff Engineering
http://cedarbluffengineering.webs.com
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I don't think apsix is suggesting going to the offending firm's customer. He means the previous firm he worked for, whose work is being claimed as tbe offender's own.
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Cedar Bluff Engineering
http://cedarbluffengineering.webs.com
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Thanks for the views.
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Best regards
Morten